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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <allimages gaicontinue="Figure_1.2_-_Antarctic_topography_and_bathymetry.png" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="306" ns="6" title="File:ACCE banner.jpg" />
      <page pageid="126" ns="6" title="File:Figure 1.10 - Major currents south of 20S.png" />
      <page pageid="119" ns="6" title="File:Figure 1.11 - Column inventories of anthropogenic CO2 in the ocean.png" />
      <page pageid="87" ns="6" title="File:Figure 1.12 - Schematic of the biological and physical pump.png" />
      <page pageid="133" ns="6" title="File:Figure 1.13 - The Antarctic polar vortex in mid-winter.png" />
      <page pageid="79" ns="6" title="File:Figure 1.14 - Percentage of Antarctic macrobenthic invertebrate species of the described world fauna.png" />
      <page pageid="151" ns="6" title="File:Figure 1.15 - A rich megabenthic community on the shelf of the southeastern Weddell Sea.png" />
      <page pageid="44" ns="6" title="File:Figure 1.16 - Classification of macro-benthic communities on the continental Antarctic shelf.png" />
      <page pageid="109" ns="6" title="File:Figure 1.1a - Map of Antarctica.png" />
      <page pageid="55" ns="6" title="File:Figure 1.1b - Map of Antarctic stations.png" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>